Here's what Alive & Kicking is up to ... two whole primary school year long residencies, R and D for a new year 5 and 6 piece (contact us if you would like a no charge visit as part of the R and D), publication of our Carey Philpotts research into school and family work, visits from Leeds Beckett University MA students, planning ahead for our next Christmas piece, Santa and The Christmas Dragon and much more.

"We seemed to stand for an endless while,
Though still no word was said,

Three men alive on Flannan Isle,
Who thought, on three men dead.""

This week we begin the R and D for a new Year 5 and 6 piece centred on The 1900 mystery surrounding The Flannan Isles.
"Though three men dwell on Flannan Isle
To keep the lamp alight,
As we steered under the lee, we caught
No glimmer through the night."
Thanks to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Burley and Woodhead Primary School and the Northern Lighthouse Board.

Here's what Debra Wilson from Springwell Primary in Leeds says ...... We had a lovely morning with Santa and the Goblin Market yesterday.
It was such a lovely experience for all our children and staff.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves that we find in the sea
e e cummings

And here we go straight away after half term with a new development of Lighthouse Island for Key Stage 2 children, their teachers and families.

We become the people of an island who make their living from the sea and face the dangers it brings. When the one-hundred-year wave comes, it destroys the lighthouse and takes Old Tom’s courage away with it. We islanders have huge task on our hands.